Com"mon*place` (?), a.
Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
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Com"mon*place`, n.
1.
An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.
2.
A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.
Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace.
Swift.
Commonplace book, a book in which records are made of things to be remembered.
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Com"mon*place`, v. t.
To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
Felton.
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Com"mon*place`, v. i.
To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.
[Obs.]
Bacon.
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